Career as CBI Officer

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is India's premier investigating
agency, responsible for a wide variety of criminal and national security
matters. It was established on 1 April 1963 and evolved from the Special
Police Establishment (SPE) founded in 1941. Later it was brought under
the Home Ministry of the Government of India. This organisation works
on referral cases from Home Ministry or when specially called for by the
Supreme Court or High Court. The Central Bureau of Investigation has emerged
as the most important investigative body for serious crimes from murder
to match fixing. It is the official Interpol unit for India.

CBI is a specialized agency meant for investigation of crime relating
to Corruption by Public Servants under the control of the Central Government,
serious economic offences and frauds and sensational crime having inter-state/all-India
ramifications. CBI does not take up investigation of general and routine
nature of crime as the Police forces of the State and Union Territories
are meant to investigate such crime.

Officers in CBI are responsible for taking care of illegal activities
in every field, be it crime, economic offenses etc. Cases handled by CBI
are divided into Anti-Corruption Division, Economic Crimes Division and
Special Crimes Division.

Anti Corruption Division: Deals with cases of corruption and fraud
committed by public servants of all Central Govt. Departments, Central
Public Sector Undertakings and Central Financial Institutions.

Special Crimes Division: Deals with cases of terrorism, bomb blasts,
sensational homicides, kidnapping for ransom and crimes committed by the
mafia/the underworld.

CBI has branches for registration of Economic and Special Crime offences
in all the four metropolitan cities, viz. Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai.
Any of these branches can be approached for providing information about
serious economic offences as well as serious special crimes such as drug
and human trafficking, fake currency, poaching of wild life, adulteration
of drugs and food products, organized crime having all-India/inter-State
ramifications.